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Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 7:34 p.m. EDT, June 19, 2013 The Palm Beach County School Board discussed Wednesday whether to allow students to participate in extracurricular activities at schools they do not attend. The new policy adjustment, approved on first reading, proposes banning the practice. But some School Board members expressed concern and asked that [...]
The Broward School District will decide whether to push back the start times of about a dozen schools in the 2013-14 school year. Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 1:26 p.m. EDT, June 11, 2013 The Broward School Board will vote later today on whether to change start and dismissal times for about two dozen schools. District [...]
He may be long-gone from his former position as Superintendent of Schools, but Art Johnson was still stirring up trouble during Wednesday’s School Board meeting. Johnson resigned in 2011 in lieu of being fired, signing a seperation agreement with the district on his way out. Last month, he was named the executive director of the [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 11:08 p.m. EST, February 27, 2013 The Broward school board approved new boundaries Wednesday that would kick in next school year. During a public meeting Wednesday, the board reviewed proposed changes including a plan to convert Arthur Ashe Middle School in Fort Lauderdale into an adult workforce development program and expand [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 5:03 p.m. EST, February 13, 2013 The Palm Beach County school district will be in desperate need of capital improvement dollars next year, the district said Wednesday. In their first budget discussion of the year, the school board set their budget priorities for 2014 and heard from district officials on some [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 4:51 p.m. EST, January 9, 2013 School officials in Palm Beach County say they’re still uneasy about the district’s new way of evaluating teachers. They worry the system that kicked in last year and will be tied to teacher pay by 2014, is borderline punitive and could lead to unfair scores [...]
Karen Yi, Sun Sentinel 3:38 p.m. EST, December 11, 2012 The school board heard from its redistricting committee Tuesday on how to best redraw its district lines. District boundaries are usually redrawn every 10 years to reflect the most recent Census data. Broward, however, postponed the process until after the 2012 elections. But that decision [...]
By Scott Travis December 3, 2012 02:05 PM Get ready for a big shakeup in the Broward Schools administration. The School Board agenda tomorrow includes the recommended firing of facilities chief Tom Lindner, the resignation of Joanne Harrison, deputy superintendent for educational programs; and the recommended transfer of Gracie Diaz, deputy superintendent for human resources. [...]
By Scott Travis September 5, 2012 10:42 AM If two weeks of botched bus service isn’t bad enough, many are finding the heated rhetoric between Broward School District management and union representatives equally troublesome. Representatives of two employee unions spoke Wednesday morning, pleading with management to stop what they see as nasty attacks toward bus [...]
By Scott Travis September 12, 2012 03:40 PM Education reporter Karen Yi is at the Palm Beach County School Board, where board members are discussing legislative priorities and other matters. Check out her blog here. Categories: None COMMENT BOARD GUIDELINES: You share in the SunSentinel.com community, so we just ask that you keep things civil. [...]
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